Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 2 | The former Ryder Cup man was not here to work on swings ; merely to pass on some of his knowledge on course management . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I told myself , the success of Aunt Louise and me living together hung on such fragile things as unselfishness and the making of adjustments ; and with shame I led my thoughts towards all those people living squashed together in real discomfort and privation . |
| 4 | not only was the undergraduate teaching poor , but there was only a minimal amount of postgraduate education in this subject ; part of the reason for this was that there was a shortage of suitable qualified and experienced doctors who knew enough to take on such postgraduate teaching ; |
| 5 | LESSONS could soon carry on all year at Darlington College of Technology in a bid to make education available to people from different walks of life . |
| 6 | When writing on the board , one should not carry on any verbal discussion , as the words are lost to the class . |
| 7 | If the purchaser does not take on such persons and they are subsequently shown to be employees , they will be protected by the Transfer Regulations and the purchaser will be liable for any costs of redundancy or dismissal . |
| 8 | ‘ I shall not take on any Hungarians . |
| 9 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 10 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 11 | The issuing house will underwrite the issue ( i.e. agree to buy up any unsold shares ) for a fee , and will generally pass on some of the risk to sub-underwriters , who are usually large institutional investors . |
| 12 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 13 | Did it just come on all of a sudden ? |
| 14 | In a case where a principal instructs as selling agent for his property or goods a person who to his knowledge acts and intends to act for other principals selling property or goods of the same description , the terms to be implied into such agency contract must differ from those to be implied where an agent is not carrying on such general agency business . |
| 15 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 16 | Pay particular attention not to take on any new tasks during this period . |
| 17 | ‘ It had been my intention to ask Tom to help manage Handley Farm , but I realise he can not possibly take on such a task now he has been asked to perform similar duties on behalf of the manor . ’ |
| 18 | But the Merc 420Se , due to be replaced by the new S-class , can still take on all comers and hold its own . |
| 19 | Not only does Britain have an immense problem coping with its own industrial waste , but it also takes on that of other countries . |
| 20 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 21 | Another old belief of hers and one which died hard , which refused to die , was that no man will willingly take on another man 's children . |
| 22 | The reason for an indemnity is that such a covenant does not automatically pass on each transaction ; the burden of it needs to be handed down expressly to each subsequent buyer . |
| 23 | She 'd thrown herself into it with gritted teeth , recklessly taking on more than she could handle . |
| 24 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 25 | So the suppliers also take on more responsibility for R&D . |
| 26 | Sufficient money was quickly raised to buy the materials necessary for the construction of Harrier Hide ; a sponsored bird watch in competition with the Leicestershire and Rutland Ornithological Society and the Trust resulted in enough money for a new wader scrape ; and work parties regularly turn up to take on any job that Tim Appleton , the Warden , asks of them . |
| 27 | Helping governors and parents to see how well a school is doing and explaining or defending the school has now taken on another dimension : comparisons with other schools leads to one set of questions while the extent to which the school is organized in accordance with the national curriculum and within the national framework of pupil assessment leads to different , inward-looking enquiries . |
| 28 | This urban base once distinguished these movements from such parties in Europe , although extreme-right phenomena there in the 1980s have ( with exceptions ) now taken on some of the distributional features of the British extreme right 's support . |
| 29 | The Centre 's goal is to create quality jobs for the local community — not only does it give start-ups a hassle-free environment in which to get their business going , but as they expand , they inevitably take on more staff . |
| 30 | Consuelo ca n't carry on all day , when she 's stayed there all night . |